Shhhhh... You werent meant to tell them that...
I spose its a model I would like to see continued though. It would save me paper, although at my office we have now created a departmental library- where books are contributed or aqcuired, and a list of books on peoples desks so we can borrow them when needed. Between the whole department, we have a reasonably high number of useful books, including multiple copies of all the editions of stroustrup and K & R.
With the fact that as long as we book them out we can take them home - it gives a highly specialised library.
I always wandered why no-one had ever set up a physical or internet techie book library- its definately a required resource which I would pay for. Chances are that my department will get a group subscription to this or something if we nag them...
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Back in my home town- there used to be some junkie dude, who would hang around down the road from the chemist asking people to get syringes for "his mums insulin shots". Hehe..
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In the UK we get an National Insurance card- which is not to be confused and is not acceptable as ID anywhere. In fact all it is is a record of your social security number. I dont drive so I dont have a drivers license, although I hold a passport and credit cards. Now I voluntarily even hold store cards, as I am personally not that paranoid, and dont think my buying habits will be of more interest than marketing, and hell- if they give me personalised discounts on my favourite products, all the better.
But not everyone wants credit cards and store cards - so really I am playing the advocate here. I know people who have no drivers license. Yes they have a passport- but these do not contain tags as such to track your buying. They use cash for everything. But when it becomes compulsary to carry such ID, containing RFID's - which is not far off happening in the UK, what choice do you have but to be tracked? Like it or not - it is an erosion of our privacy choices.
So how far off is people tagging?
I am not religeous - but for those who know revelations - it goes something like:
"To buy or to sell in the great market, Every man, woman or child shall carry a mark upon their forehead and right hand....."
Now that might just be a reason to be paranoid.
Your assuming your credit card statements and history shows you everything. They probably hold a lot more information than you are seeing. You could reason along the lines of why would they bother... But they may reason that they would loose some paranoid customers if they were to show the whole shopping list on the statement.
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Whose to say women wouldnt snicker about the make, brand and size of boxer shorts (or worse still y-fronts) worn by guys? Hehe...
You could also tell what someone is out for by seeing if they have RFID tagged comdoms in their pocket....
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Sureley they could identify you by other items... Imagine that cash could all be traced with RFID's just as easily.. All cash exchange could be somewhat tracked too..
Then they would know you are a cross dresser..And whose panties you are wearing...
Surely the whole system could easily be thrown by buying everying as gifts...
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The problem is that these are not deigned to be easily- or indeed in any way removed intact.
They are embedded into the products during production - at least in this case.
This would mean however- that if you buy a new keyring- with a tag, you could scan that. So yes we could use them in some way...
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Excuse my dull uk ignorance(am i too geeky for my own good at times) - but what exactly is preparation H? something like viagra?
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If it was just for anti-theft surely the current tags with the red-ink bursting tamper prevention devices are enough. Yes this could be used for theft prevention as a secondary function - but I suspect marketing and data collection has a great deal more to do with it.
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Quickly touches temples and reaches round to the back of my neck... No barcodes or tags there.. Whew...
But seriously - in the UK they are introducing national ID cards - which are meant to eventually be a universal ID. Whats to stop them storing the data centrally and giving us just an ID number. Between that and RFID tags- its just a short step from tagging people as a matter of course. I am sure that the prison and offender population would be the first to be tagged in that way. Its not impossible to make these things tamper resistant as well...
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I am pretty sure that the RFID tag could be easily located and removed.. I mean unless I am very misinformed- you would find a hard lump somewhere. Remove it- failing that - hit it with a sledgehammer, or see if you could fry it on a large power transformer/motor etc by induction.
Though they never did say whether the RF tags would be washing machine proof.. I wouldnt expect them to be.
It has been my main concern about these wearable-computer-clothes that are beginning to surface.. Wouldnt you have to remove the gadgets before washing, or dry clean only(expensive).... Or most dreaded of all- handwash it??
That rules... I think its time to use those photies to create a HL map! I feel it coming on....
Btw - anybody ever find HL maps of London Underground stations? I would love to find the time to do some HL mini-game based on it.... hehe...
I am gonna ask why windows users wouldnt look geeky as well? In fact I know at least a few non-computer people who look as geeky as that...
But then one of them is a die hard Magic fan I suppose.
Still I like the big "Thanks Slashdot" notice on the dead site... Hehe...
You mean the one that IBM architecture with AT legacy devices attached has always used. I own two PC's, no Macs, but I have no misconceptions about the roots and limitations.
Unfortunately real technological development will always be hindered by commercial and egotistical issues.
And lets be honest - that whole backwards commpatibility thing is a bit of a chicken-bone in the throat. At least with linux you can recompile most of the software to run on a new architecture.
Looking at that graph - the scatter - I didnt see the G4 or PPC chips there. I personally think the better future is parallel processors as opposed to faster, more expensive, more power hungry superchunks.
Right now I think more development in software engineering would push the tech barrier furthar than the chip developments.
Most software cant even take advantage of current processors as well as it should yet.
Thats kinda what I was saying. I didnt in any way imply flash is not evil. So, forgiving my ignorance, do we have a non-evil OSS interactive web thing?
This is offtopic- but I agree it is such a pity that interactive apps like this are more common in flash than java, but bear in mind that Java is still not free as in beer. Yes the source is there, and the language is free - but only as long as Sun allow it to be. Have you ever read the sun licence agreement?
That YAMPP site is awesome. Its a pity it has not had more of a mention.
I would love to see some portable MP3 and capture device I could customize in such a way to connect to a bunch of microcontrollers or Palm PCs. Imagine using them for sound capture and recognition. Nice!
The fact that the artical specific player can play oggs is cool - but these Yampp ones could be modified to do the same surely? Build a pure ogg device.
If anyone does - please post links for the source and schematics (you shouldnt need to change the hardware at all) here. I can imagine this is fairly easy - even trivial if you know OGG well.
Ah - I do have the advantage that being a ps2 programmer, we require cygwin for our dev-tools. Tehrefore we already have it.
When you say it works okay if they are not publicly used - I do not trust my work machine when I am away from it, but since I do all my important stuff with home over ssh, and I never cache passwords - exactly where is the risk? I do not even cache my hostname and port for the ssh connection. Putty only saves it if you tell it to. X is not secure. But X over SSH is a great deal more secure. I am not saying SSH is the be all and end all - but it is pretty good.
I suspect it would be easier to port to Linux, or a windows machine with Cygwin than windows. The Amiga filesystem was clsoer to Linux than windows, but then you mounted stuff on as a named drive with a colon. I remember you could mount stuff as a directory but it was not generally used in that way.
A quick bit of googling got me two rather useful links....
http://www.gpsoft.com.au/ - These guys are selling directory Opus 6 for windows - a direct derivation fo the product... They also claim to have Amiga products still available.
http://dopus.amiga.pl/ - and these guys. On their site it tells me its under the GPL. Its still maintained - for the Amiga. This group have not ported it.
I beleive the source went two seperate ways as the initial coding group had some kind of royalties related legal battle.
Being a serious geek - my solution is having a linux server at home, and using ssh (in fact putty) to tunnel home. I use psftp for files, I use cygwin for an X-Server (its got a nice one) and even read my mail using imap via the tunnel. Hehe..
You know - I once used that with explorer to get me a two-pane file commander. Just created two frames - each pointing to file:///c:\. The alternative was downloading something. What I really wanted was something with DOPUS functionality. Anybody here remember directory opus?
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Shhhhh... You werent meant to tell them that...
I spose its a model I would like to see continued though. It would save me paper, although at my office we have now created a departmental library- where books are contributed or aqcuired, and a list of books on peoples desks so we can borrow them when needed. Between the whole department, we have a reasonably high number of useful books, including multiple copies of all the editions of stroustrup and K & R.
With the fact that as long as we book them out we can take them home - it gives a highly specialised library.
I always wandered why no-one had ever set up a physical or internet techie book library- its definately a required resource which I would pay for. Chances are that my department will get a group subscription to this or something if we nag them...
Back in my home town- there used to be some junkie dude, who would hang around down the road from the chemist asking people to get syringes for "his mums insulin shots". Hehe..
In the UK we get an National Insurance card- which is not to be confused and is not acceptable as ID anywhere. In fact all it is is a record of your social security number. I dont drive so I dont have a drivers license, although I hold a passport and credit cards. Now I voluntarily even hold store cards, as I am personally not that paranoid, and dont think my buying habits will be of more interest than marketing, and hell- if they give me personalised discounts on my favourite products, all the better. :
But not everyone wants credit cards and store cards - so really I am playing the advocate here. I know people who have no drivers license. Yes they have a passport- but these do not contain tags as such to track your buying. They use cash for everything. But when it becomes compulsary to carry such ID, containing RFID's - which is not far off happening in the UK, what choice do you have but to be tracked? Like it or not - it is an erosion of our privacy choices.
So how far off is people tagging?
I am not religeous - but for those who know revelations - it goes something like
"To buy or to sell in the great market, Every man, woman or child shall carry a mark upon their forehead and right hand....."
Now that might just be a reason to be paranoid.
Your assuming your credit card statements and history shows you everything. They probably hold a lot more information than you are seeing. You could reason along the lines of why would they bother... But they may reason that they would loose some paranoid customers if they were to show the whole shopping list on the statement.
Whose to say women wouldnt snicker about the make, brand and size of boxer shorts (or worse still y-fronts) worn by guys? Hehe...
You could also tell what someone is out for by seeing if they have RFID tagged comdoms in their pocket....
Sureley they could identify you by other items... Imagine that cash could all be traced with RFID's just as easily.. All cash exchange could be somewhat tracked too..
Then they would know you are a cross dresser..And whose panties you are wearing...
Surely the whole system could easily be thrown by buying everying as gifts...
The problem is that these are not deigned to be easily- or indeed in any way removed intact.
They are embedded into the products during production - at least in this case.
This would mean however- that if you buy a new keyring- with a tag, you could scan that. So yes we could use them in some way...
Excuse my dull uk ignorance(am i too geeky for my own good at times) - but what exactly is preparation H? something like viagra?
If it was just for anti-theft surely the current tags with the red-ink bursting tamper prevention devices are enough. Yes this could be used for theft prevention as a secondary function - but I suspect marketing and data collection has a great deal more to do with it.
Quickly touches temples and reaches round to the back of my neck... No barcodes or tags there.. Whew...
But seriously - in the UK they are introducing national ID cards - which are meant to eventually be a universal ID. Whats to stop them storing the data centrally and giving us just an ID number. Between that and RFID tags- its just a short step from tagging people as a matter of course. I am sure that the prison and offender population would be the first to be tagged in that way. Its not impossible to make these things tamper resistant as well...
I am pretty sure that the RFID tag could be easily located and removed.. I mean unless I am very misinformed- you would find a hard lump somewhere.
Remove it- failing that - hit it with a sledgehammer, or see if you could fry it on a large power transformer/motor etc by induction.
Though they never did say whether the RF tags would be washing machine proof.. I wouldnt expect them to be.
It has been my main concern about these wearable-computer-clothes that are beginning to surface.. Wouldnt you have to remove the gadgets before washing, or dry clean only(expensive).... Or most dreaded of all- handwash it??
Shouldnt that be baseketball? A la Trey Parker and Matt Stone?
That rules... I think its time to use those photies to create a HL map! I feel it coming on....
Btw - anybody ever find HL maps of London Underground stations? I would love to find the time to do some HL mini-game based on it.... hehe...
I am gonna ask why windows users wouldnt look geeky as well? In fact I know at least a few non-computer people who look as geeky as that...
But then one of them is a die hard Magic fan I suppose.
Still I like the big "Thanks Slashdot" notice on the dead site... Hehe...
You mean the one that IBM architecture with AT legacy devices attached has always used. I own two PC's, no Macs, but I have no misconceptions about the roots and limitations.
Unfortunately real technological development will always be hindered by commercial and egotistical issues.
And lets be honest - that whole backwards commpatibility thing is a bit of a chicken-bone in the throat. At least with linux you can recompile most of the software to run on a new architecture.
Looking at that graph - the scatter - I didnt see the G4 or PPC chips there. I personally think the better future is parallel processors as opposed to faster, more expensive, more power hungry superchunks.
Right now I think more development in software engineering would push the tech barrier furthar than the chip developments.
Most software cant even take advantage of current processors as well as it should yet.
Thats kinda what I was saying. I didnt in any way imply flash is not evil. So, forgiving my ignorance, do we have a non-evil OSS interactive web thing?
How I wish we could moderate -1 pedantic.
oops- I meant java is free as in beer but not entirely free as in speech. Hence why I should have previewed.... Fool.
This is offtopic- but I agree it is such a pity that interactive apps like this are more common in flash than java, but bear in mind that Java is still not free as in beer. Yes the source is there, and the language is free - but only as long as Sun allow it to be. Have you ever read the sun licence agreement?
That YAMPP site is awesome. Its a pity it has not had more of a mention.
I would love to see some portable MP3 and capture device I could customize in such a way to connect to a bunch of microcontrollers or Palm PCs. Imagine using them for sound capture and recognition. Nice!
The fact that the artical specific player can play oggs is cool - but these Yampp ones could be modified to do the same surely? Build a pure ogg device.
If anyone does - please post links for the source and schematics (you shouldnt need to change the hardware at all) here. I can imagine this is fairly easy - even trivial if you know OGG well.
Ah - I do have the advantage that being a ps2 programmer, we require cygwin for our dev-tools. Tehrefore we already have it.
When you say it works okay if they are not publicly used - I do not trust my work machine when I am away from it, but since I do all my important stuff with home over ssh, and I never cache passwords - exactly where is the risk? I do not even cache my hostname and port for the ssh connection. Putty only saves it if you tell it to. X is not secure. But X over SSH is a great deal more secure. I am not saying SSH is the be all and end all - but it is pretty good.
A quick bit of googling got me two rather useful links....
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http://www.gpsoft.com.au/ - These guys are selling directory Opus 6 for windows - a direct derivation fo the product... They also claim to have Amiga products still available.
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http://dopus.amiga.pl/ - and these guys. On their site it tells me its under the GPL. Its still maintained - for the Amiga. This group have not ported it.
I beleive the source went two seperate ways as the initial coding group had some kind of royalties related legal battle.Being a serious geek - my solution is having a linux server at home, and using ssh (in fact putty) to tunnel home. I use psftp for files, I use cygwin for an X-Server (its got a nice one) and even read my mail using imap via the tunnel. Hehe..
You know - I once used that with explorer to get me a two-pane file commander. Just created two frames - each pointing to file:///c:\. The alternative was downloading something. What I really wanted was something with DOPUS functionality. Anybody here remember directory opus?